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Thu November 26, 2009
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(The Register) Obvious "The Bulgarian National Space Research Institute has stated that not only are alien spies living among us, but that they object strongly to 'immoral behaviour' by humanity - such as causing global warming or using cosmetics"  (theregister.co.uk) (33)
(3 News New Zealand) Unlikely Historic explorer tweets from beyond the grave. MAGGOTS COMING OUT  (3news.co.nz) (27)
(Cosmos) Amusing Solar activity isn't a significant cause of global warming, we have thousands of years of tree-ring data to prove it. Oh wait  (cosmosmagazine.com) (113)
(Computerworld) Obvious Only one month in: Windows 7 passes Mac OS X(All Versions) in market share. No word on how many minutes it took to surpass the market share for Linux  (computerworld.com) (82)
(Gizmag) Cool Italian doctor may have found a cure for MS - cleaning out buildups of iron in the brain. Still no cure for metalheads  (gizmag.com) (34)
(Gizmodo) Fail How to quit your job and ensure no future company will hire you  (gizmodo.com) (33)
(TechEBlog) Interesting I think the Bugatti Veyron is a bit too cheap, but the iPhone 3GS Supreme on the other hand . . .  (techeblog.com) (16)
(Gizmodo) Stupid You will never find a more wretched hive of dumb and gullibility than an audiophile's house  (gizmodo.com) (50)
(Boston Globe) Interesting The letter coldly outlined the parents' choices: start paying rent or we throw your children in the trash or use them for medical experiments  (boston.com) (96)
(NPR) Amusing The best animation summarizing a new science theory you'll see today  (npr.org) (21)
(Some Guy) Cool NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-129) zips along at about 18000 MPH high above Earth's rugged and rough terrain after undocking from the International Space Station on 25 Nov 2009. The huge 4288x2846-pixel photo is even more impressive  (chamorrobible.org) (21)
(Xinhua) Interesting Scientists discover primitive emotion-like behavior in fruit flies. Next week's news: PETA demands rights for fruit flies  (news.xinhuanet.com) (11)

Wed November 25, 2009
(Kotaku) Dumbass Suing Activision over World of Warcraft? Don't forget to subpoena Depeche Mode and Winona Rider, since she can "explain the significance of alienation in Catcher in the Rye." Makes sense  (kotaku.com) (272)
(Media Matters) Obvious Hannity: This is one of the coldest years on record, so global warming is a hoax. Science: This is one of the warmest years on record, so Hannity is a douche  (feeds.mediamatters.org) (1247)
(Discover) Cool Our zombie galaxy feasts on cannibalized corpses. And you thought astronomy was for dorks  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (24)
(asahi.com) Scary Deadly Australian redback spider thought to have invaded Japan, with tangled web of bureaucracy allowing it to enter major cities. Crikey  (asahi.com) (54)
(London Times) Interesting Economic downturn forces Japanese robot makers to concentrate on utilitarian machines that will take your job years ahead of schedule (pics)  (timesonline.co.uk) (19)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Another reason China is kicking our ass: Push button boob jobs with instant D-liscious results  (weirdasianews.com) (lots)
(Some Guy) Followup All those 'off the cuff' remarks that you should ignore in the ClimateGate emails found their way into "off the cuff" computer code. FORTRAN (shudder) code labled 'fudge factor'  (bishophill.squarespace.com) (370)
(Some Guy) Obvious Danish media claim that swine flu is just another plot created by multinational corporations to contol people's minds, like 9/11 or Kentucky Fried Chicken  (russiatoday.com) (37)
(Science Daily) Sad Motherlode of gorillas remains vulnerable, much to the delight of one deranged Italian plumber addicted to shrooms  (sciencedaily.com) (8)
(Some Comic Geek) Survey Just in time for a long holiday weekend: New comics shipping November 25th. What are you picking up for the drive/flight?  (downtowncomics.ning.com) (43)
(The Register) Followup The economy is so bad that billionaires are now building their yachts out of crap they picked out of the ocean  (theregister.co.uk) (7)
(Some Chick) Asinine Ten secret text message codes parents need to pay special attention to. NALOPKT  (wbtv.com) (630)
(I Heart Chaos) Cool The absolute best Bioshock cosplay you'll see... ever. No, really, it doesn't get any better than this  (iheartchaos.com) (57)
(News.com.au) Interesting Power plant in Norway uses salt to generate electricity. The excitement that scientists are feeling is a white-NaCl ride  (news.com.au) (33)
(USA Today) Cool Royal Caribbean unveils first child tracking system that lets parents avoid...errr, I mean, track their children  (usatoday.com) (16)
(NASA) Cool Data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft have confirmed the stunning reality of MONSTER WAVES ON THE SUN  (science.nasa.gov) (9)
(YouTube) Video The coolest xbox that can't play Xbox games  (youtube.com) (92)

Tue November 24, 2009
(Utne) Unlikely Men suddenly claim to be more religious when they're trying to get laid, proving that there truly are no atheists in fox holes  (utne.com) (79)
(Gizmodo) Strange "Shockwaves to the Crotch Treat Erectile Dysfunction." Scientists say it's like having your crotch stepped on by a women in stiletto heels, but not at all painful. With SFW but terrifying photo goodness  (gizmodo.com) (31)
(Gizmodo) Interesting This car will run at 1,000 MPH, generate twice as many Fark headlines with a Dumbass tag  (gizmodo.com) (34)
(Scientific American) Unlikely Physicists: You know that whole space-time duality thing? Uh, we may have gotten it wrong  (scientificamerican.com) (108)
(Some Guy) Interesting How scientists are building better wind turbines by studying Lance Armstrong. Apparently, windmills are also a lot more efficient when they use just one nut  (sciencenow.sciencemag.org) (15)
(Discovery) Ironic Kirk Cameron asks for a crocoduck. Science provides one: the Anatosuchus Minor found by paleontologists  (news.discovery.com) (102)
(yomiuri.co.jp) Strange Small Tokyo factories pool resources to build deep-sea research robot to search for oil and minerals. In other news, small American factories struggle to find workers who understand English and can add two numbers  (yomiuri.co.jp) (34)
(Area Man) Interesting Helicopter blades generate lift, lightning bolts  (scienceblogs.com) (25)
(BBC) Strange Scientists witness grandma macaques intervening to take care of grandchildren in place of incompetent or missing parents, primate behavior never before seen outside of Homo sapiens trailerparkensis  (news.bbc.co.uk) (18)
(Google) Weird 77-year-old Japanese man who lost his Guinness World Record as oldest Everest climber to 78-year-old Nepalese man pretty damn piqued, vows he will climb Everest again at age 80  (google.com) (14)
(Discovery) Interesting "Smart" body armor learns more with every bullet - Ok, who wants to be first in a test series?  (news.discovery.com) (52)
(Some Guy) Cool Google: F*ck it, let's just give away computers  (linuxjournal.com) (118)
(Gizmodo) Cool The coolest slow-shutter shots you'll see today  (gizmodo.com) (62)
(The New York Times) Interesting Right-handed snails easier for right-handed snakes to eat  (nytimes.com) (20)
(Live Science) Spiffy Scientists find new species of chameleon, say it lay undiscovered for so long because it tends to come and go, come and go-oh-oh-oh  (livescience.com) (12)
(Spaceweather) Cool The coolest photo of an icy sunrise you'll see all day  (spaceweather.com) (11)
(Apple Insider) Asinine 50% of all mobile data traffic worldwide eaten up by people downloading fart apps and 911 dialers for $0.99  (appleinsider.com) (23)
(Wired) Cool Man vs Electricity. Introducing Dr Megavolt  (wired.co.uk) (29)
(Yahoo) Scary Cases of drug-resistant bacterial infection have risen by 90 percent since 1999, at least partially because it's no longer being diagnosed as lupus  (news.yahoo.com) (56)
(Telegraph) Sappy Happy 5th Birthday, World of Warcraft  (telegraph.co.uk) (441)

Mon November 23, 2009
(YouTube) Cool What pictures sound like  (youtube.com) (72)
(Some Large Hadron Collider) Cool Future LHC unsuccessful in sabotaging present LHC  (press.web.cern.ch) (52)
(YouTube) Cool New Symphony of Science Video: "Our Place in the Cosmos" (ft. Sagan, Dawkins, Kaku, Jastrow)  (youtube.com) (36)
(Discover) Cool Obama unleashes massive scheme to turn children into nerds. D10 manufacturers rejoice  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (92)
(BusinessWeek) Amusing Apparently forgetting that AT&T has disabled tethering on the iPhone, Apple launches ad campaign bragging about simultaneous tethering and voice  (businessweek.com) (91)
(SlashFilm) Cool Back to the Future Crysis mod includes ability to time travel. Sadly you can't go back in time and stop the actual Back to the Future games from being made  (slashfilm.com) (45)
(Telegraph) Obvious In a fantastic leap of logic, scientists propose that some sort of 'flowing air' might someday be used to generate electricity. If only this 'flowing air' phenomenon occurred naturally outside of a laboratory  (telegraph.co.uk) (31)
(Some Sputnik) Cool The burning question: "Where Is My Flying Car?,"... Answer: "It was shot down by the flying tank"  (aroundglobe.net) (37)
(AllAfrica) Sad Three hajj pilgrims die of some funky cold in Medina  (allafrica.com) (43)
(Yahoo) Interesting Crack open your neighbor's skull and feast on the goo inside: Since the Kyoto treaty in 1997, "climate change has worsened and accelerated beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then"  (malaysia.news.yahoo.com) (134)
(Wired) Cool Dr Who is 46 years old today, and he doesn't look a day over 2,432  (wired.com) (184)
(Some Guy) Cool Good news everyone, scientists at Cornell have developed an experimental "F-ray"  (gizmag.com) (44)
(CBC) Interesting That cheap Xbox 360 you got off Ebay was probably banned from Xbox Live for being modified  (cbc.ca) (151)
(Planetary Society) Spiffy Coolest images of ice volcanoes you will see all day. Buckle up before clicking because the second one will fly you into the plume  (planetary.org) (15)
(Spike) Amusing Top 8 video game bugs that made the game better  (spike.com) (202)
(Paste Magazine) Cool The 20 best gadgets of the decade (2000-2009)  (pastemagazine.com) (115)

Sun November 22, 2009
(Discover) Followup Security camera footage of the large meteor over Utah as it lights up the night sky, casting shadows and overexposes cameras  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (42)
(The New York Times) Ironic Scientists: science is great, except when it supports religion  (nytimes.com) (342)
(NASA) Cool Hubble picture of light echoes that makes 70's psychedelic posters look like XKCD  (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov) (55)
(Telegraph) Followup ClimateGate: How the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (508)
(Some Guy) Scary The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world's largest ships can produce as much sulphur pollution as all the world's cars  (mailonsunday.co.uk) (93)
(ABC News) Amusing "Shuttle astronaut ... learns of the birth [of his daughter] ... while he orbited 200 feet above the earth." 200 feet? Nice work, ABC News  (abcnews.go.com) (53)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Need advice on breaking your own hard drive or eating a computer? There's a Yahoo Answer for that  (techeblog.com) (34)
(Smart Planet) Cool Good news, by 2020 your brain will control your computer. Bad news, you think porn pop-ups were frequent now  (smartplanet.com) (33)
(recombu.com) Obvious Ten things that mobile devices are making obsolete. 'Newspaper in the bathroom' is conspicuously absent  (recombu.com) (106)

Sat November 21, 2009
(YouTube) Spiffy Most awesome video of a cuttlefish hunting you'll see all day  (youtube.com) (54)
(New Scientist) Cool Just in case the LHC doesn't create a super massive black hole and ends the universe, here's what scientists are planning next  (newscientist.com) (48)
(Gamespot) Followup Stupid: User sues Sony for being banned from PSN. Obvious: Case is thrown out. Dumbass: User appeals. Asinine: Adds Nintendo and Microsoft to the suit. Which tag is most appropriate?  (gamespot.com) (43)
(London Times) Interesting Ancient Greek worshippers showed inclination towards the Sun. The Times is there  (timesonline.co.uk) (44)
(The Consumerist) Fail "Just because we put a beach mode on your camera does not mean we expect you to take your camera on a beach exposing it to the elements."  (consumerist.com) (83)
(CNN) Stupid Dumbass parents hate science  (www1.whdh.com) (107)
(BBC) Cool Coolest nature photos that you will see all day. Bonus: No summoning [he who will not be named] but rather summon Doritos (9th photo)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (33)
(Gaia Online) Dumbass Gaia Online removes all virtual game objects that refer to tobacco and cigarettes, because we hate it when our online avatars get virtual lung cancer  (gaiaonline.com) (30)
(TechEBlog) Amusing Dear spambots, please describe love in exactly 200-words  (techeblog.com) (35)
(The New York Times) Scary Xbox, just having lost thousands of customers through it's recent banning of modded consoles, turns to a new market. "You sound like a girl" no longer a valuable insult  (nytimes.com) (109)
(Boston Globe) Spiffy What nerd porn may look like  (boston.com) (49)
(cnet.uk) Interesting Some journalist calculates how much the internet weighs. Just in case you want to ship it, or something  (crave.cnet.co.uk) (38)
(Some Guy) Amusing Only in Movember: a gallery of video game mustaches  (gamepro.com.au) (16)
(The Big Money) Interesting Google does a non-evil thing: Bans white teeth, flat stomachs  (thebigmoney.com) (66)

Fri November 20, 2009
(Some Guy) Misc Dammit.. addictive maize game. Can't get past level 4  (maniacworld.com) (104)
(Experience Project) Amusing The DROID doesn't do corn, and five other things  (experienceproject.com) (76)
(MIT) Interesting MIT invents liquid metal battery to power the electric grid, find Sarah Conner  (web.mit.edu) (34)
(PCWorld) Stupid As pretty much the entire tech industry does a collective facepalm over AT&T's Verizon rebuttal ad, AT&T continues insisting that their smartphones are "the most popular"  (pcworld.com) (76)
(Pen 15 club member) Weird Bangkok introduces disposable penis measuring device (measures non disposable penises as well)  T-Shirt  (nationmultimedia.com) (33)
(Washington Post) Interesting Corn-based ethanol producer says it will soon compete with gasoline. This is a repeat from 1999, 1989,...1909  (washingtonpost.com) (43)
(The Register) Cool US defense spending may be out of control, but at least they're going to finally give us our flying cars  (theregister.co.uk) (52)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting In a surprise to environmentalists everywhere, the electric-car capital of the nation is the city with more oil than a New Jersey beach during spring break  (blogs.wsj.com) (37)
(LA Times) Obvious Mastodons probably died off because they were large, slow, and very tasty  (latimes.com) (36)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists could begin the first human trials for stem cell blindness therapy next year, provided that the FDA lens them a hand  (telegraph.co.uk) (51)
(Montreal gazette) Interesting Archeologists unearth skeletons at the steps of Montreal Basilica. Expect to learn about life in 1700s, plot to next Dan Brown novel  (montrealgazette.com) (18)
(The Times of India) Interesting Scientists invent a spray that can prevent premature ejaculation. Look out, it's coming soon  (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (82)
(Kotaku) Interesting This is a test. This game system is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual Koopa attack, you would have been instructed to find power-ups  (kotaku.com) (39)
(LiveLeak) Cool Surprising that no one has done this before, 'cause it's teh awesome: visualizing what it would look like from ground level if Earth had Saturn's rings  (liveleak.com) (170)
(Labspaces.net) Obvious Cigarettes contain bacteria that can cause serious disease in humans. So if you're thinking that the smoke you're inhaling is merely chock full of carcinogens and lung-annealing tars, think again, you dipshiat  (labspaces.net) (185)

Thu November 19, 2009
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Surfing, you officially have a final boss level: riding a solar tsunami  (physorg.com) (31)
(Ars Technica) Obvious Mac laptops ranked fourth in build quality behind Sony, Toshiba and Asus. Your daily Mac/PC flamewar to the right  (arstechnica.com) (352)
(Gizmodo) Cool Google unveils Chrome OS. Geekspasm time  (gizmodo.com) (96)
(The Register) Weird Canadian invents reversible paralysis-ray that turns its victims blue and flaccid. U.S. Defense Dept. counters with picture of Rosie O'Donnell  (theregister.co.uk) (22)
(Space) Cool "Hubble Spies Galaxy's Big Bulge." Bow chicka wow wow  (space.com) (17)
(IndyStar) Silly Scientists decide to answer the age old question, "Are caged chickens happy?"  (indystar.com) (78)
(Yahoo) Interesting "In Amazon, a frustrated search for cancer cures." They should try Borders or Barnes & Noble, then  (news.yahoo.com) (28)
(Boing Boing) Scary Britain launches War on Piracy, will create Pirate Finder General, target piracy sites, programs and alleged pirates with full force of the law and more. This is not a repeat from the 18th century  (torrentfreak.com) (78)
(AMC) Interesting Will better science education get rid of the bad science in sci-fi movies? Nope, because easy time travel, "red matter," and parsecs as a unit of time are just too much fun  (blogs.amctv.com) (145)
(Reuters) PSA "Call of Duty" sales at $550,000,000 in just five days. Hot Pocket, Mountain Dew sales figured expected to closely parallel  (reuters.com) (178)
(Kotaku) Amusing Not news: Sony launches a video game console in Brazil. News: It's the nine year old PS2. Fark: For $500  (kotaku.com) (64)
(Cracked) Interesting Six inventors who got jack shiat for changing the world  (cracked.com) (138)
(Some Guy) Interesting Skin-based "electronic tattoos" offer medical read-outs. And possibly, Quake III  (hplusmagazine.com) (29)
(New Scientist) Interesting Scientists come up with four ways to feed the ever increasing world population. Most of them are quite large schemes, we probably need to start with a more modest proposal  T-Shirt  (newscientist.com) (122)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting "Hobbits", which were a new species of human, then were regular humans dwarfed by disease, now a new species again. Still tasty either way, says Goblin King  (physorg.com) (47)
(Boing Boing) Amusing Don't have time to go to church with your family? That's fine, there's a video game to take care of that  (boingboing.net) (40)
(Gizmodo) Amusing Need to instantly add cats to every photo you take? There's an app for that  (gizmodo.com) (26)
(Ars Technica) Spiffy First programmable quantum computer created. That was random  (arstechnica.com) (82)

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